Mark80

Let me get this straight. You've been racking your brain for a month and all you came up with was his initials? Hum. I could certainly here Berman saying this. But as an every day one it's just too long. Unfortunately, I'm not the creative type to come up with anything good. Swatkins sounds decent though.

Not to be that guy man, but for future reference it's bandwidth if you did not know and that wasn't a typo.

There has to be a way to allow smoking somewhere in the stadium. Just has to be.

For the first time ever, I'm actually concerned about LA. It was always a never gonna happen thing to me and I focused my fears up North, but now, with the Clippers sale, the comments by the Fins owner, and the league considering hosting the draft there when they don't even have a team...I'm not liking this one bit. Hopefully the Chargers, Rams, or Raiders move there stat. I agree, this whole 4 day thing is ridiculous. The glory days of rounds 1-3 one day and 4-7 the next are never coming back. I'm curious if anyone has any idea how much more revenue they generated with the 3 day draft compared to the 2 day? I can't imagine it can be that much more in the grad scheme of things for the league. Didn't he just get booted off the team? I can't imagine him going first round after his repeated antics and getting kicked off the team. I think next year's draft will be just fine. QBs will probably be rated higher with Winston (potentially), Hundley, and Moriata heading into the season with very high expectations. All 3 could have easily been the top QB taken this year with good workouts / combines / interviews.

He didn't destroy us one game last year, he destroyed Justin Rogers one game last year. The guy had no business being on an NFL playing field but desperate times called for desperate measures I suppose. I'd like Geno to win it because I also believe that he is a terrible QB. Bad skill set, bad intelligence level, bad leadership skills. Anyone, anyone, who believes he is better than EJ has some serious perspective issues and are just flat out wanting EJ to fail for whatever reason (yes I'm talking to all of you "i hope he does great but I don't see it after 1/2 a rookie season" bozos).

The only idiots here are the people that still listen to that channel and especially that show. The only things worthwhile are Muph's show and the Sabres / Bills games. The other two sports stations in this town are much, much better to listen to even though they are mostly national shows. I'd take their national programs over these idiots, jeremy white, that crap hockey show, and rome any day of the week. Simon is ok, just ok though. Young rich people by fast cars. People who buy fast cars drive them fast. It's not a Buffalo thing at all man.

I don't really like this idea at all, but if the name has some sticking points why now follow the Angels lead. They've gone from California Angles, to Anaheim Angels to the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. All in an effort to tap into the LA region. Perhaps Buffalo Bills of Niagara or something like that is possible to keep both sides appeased.

See what you are saying man, but you have to take those Forbes valuations with a grain of salt. In reality, teams are worth what someone is willing to pay for them.

You're a waste of my time. I'll just end by saying this. I'm sure I know just as much if not more about the legal system in the south than you do. Going to a top tier law school in the south tends to teach you a thing or two about the law.

There is a really good thread about this already that was active a month or two ago. It has all the info you need. Got moved to the archives but here it is. http://forums.twobillsdrive.com/topic/167165-coming-to-buffalo-looking-for-advice/

In light of another high impact player going down in OTAs yesterday for the Cowboys, I'm just looking for everyone to stay healthy, that's all I care about.

Agreed, especially with a bounce back injury free year that we will hopefully get.

What does Marcel's brother being shot or Williams being stabbed by his brother have anything to do with them going to jail? Last time I checked, an overwhelming majority of victims (Williams) and their family members (Dareus) don't go to prison. You clearly have little to no understanding of the legal system if you believe Marcel is going to actually be found guilty of a felony. He'll plead it down to a misdemeanor pay a fine, do a little community service and be done. As for Williams, criminal mischief charges? Come on, you really think he's going to jail for that? These guys can afford to pay for the best defense attorneys in their state, you don't go to jail for such things when you have attorneys that know what they are doing. That's the reality of it. 100% guaranteed that neither goes to jail for either of those offenses. As far as the other weak argument, what makes you think it is easier to throw balls to big receivers than small ones. And these guys are not that agile, they are more straight line speed guys and Benjamin isn't even that fast. There is a very small window a QB can throw a ball to a covered tall WR that he can snag and the CB cannot grab or knock down. It is much easier to throw to an open receiver regardless of their size. If you don't think he can hit our WRs when they are open, who are much better route runners than Benjamin and Bryant, than what makes you think he'll hit the smaller window for a taller WR to make the play when they are covered? WR has quickly become one of the best strengths on our team, IMO. You don't get better by improving your strengths slightly, you get better by improving your weaknesses a lot...OL, LB, and DB had to be the targets after we got Watkins. Period. Finally, Watkins. What would make you think he's going to be injured? He only missed part of one game in his entire college career because of injury and that was just an ankle injury. You could create the exact same doom and gloom scenario for any team in the league. Your act just gets old.

What the hell are you talking about? "Focuses on the the availability of just one weapon"? What does that even mean? Watkins, Spiller, Goodwin, Woods, Williams. 5 legit weapons in the passing game. Watkins IS our big threat guy. Williams IS our BIG threat guy in the redzone. Just because they are tall and fast doesn't mean they are NFL superstars. Benjamin and Bryant? Seriously? Maybe we should have just drafted 6 WRs? Preston Brown an UDFA? Unreal. You're complaining about Watkins "not even out of the bag yet" but at the same time proclaim Brown and Cockerell to be wasted picks already. Williams and Dareus in jail opening day? Come on man, get a grip on reality.

Someone didn't use their Bluebook!

That Mitch Frerotte one is just fantastic.

Really, besides harbor center where? Also, they should be within walking distance of the stadium to be relevant.

Right, but that alone isn't enough. Even if it's downtown they would still need more hotel space, restaurants, and a new convention center I would think. If the convention center could be built with the stadium it would probably be the old "if you build it, they will come" sort of thing for the hotels and restaurants.

I think it would depend on how much infrastructure we have available around the stadium. If the hotels, restaurants, convention center, and access are up in place then I would say we would get one. They seem to be really rewarding the new stadiums lately and it could easily be an unofficial promise made to the city / new owner to get a new one built.

Yikes, that's bad. If you would have said to me "who is Quentin Coryatt?" I would have had no clue until 1 minute ago. A number 2 overall pick! Bust on 1 and 2, no wonder the Colts were so bad for so long.

Very true, but that technology / scrutiny is there for all players. It goes back to my point when we first started this back and forth, his level of competition scares me a bit. You see a guy dominate a bunch of players that will never see an NFL field except for a select few (MAC) or you see a guy dominate a bunch of players who will be in the NFL (SEC), you tell me who you think is going to be the "safer" pick and who has more "bust" potential. Mack's performance / numbers / level of dominance were impressive, very impressive, but it was against who it was against.

He never said Mike Williams (wr-usc) was a safe pick. I said Mike Williams (ol we drafted) was considered one at the time and he thought I was talking about the other one (USC).

So now your qualifying it to a top 12 pick so you can be right huh? Not so fast. Since 2000: David Carr, Bryon Leftwich, Leodis McKelvin (sorry, but for an 11 pick he doesn't pass muster), Aaron Curry (yes it's ACC, but their enrollment is only 5,000 undegrads so I'm counting it). There is 4. You named only 3 good ones (Vincent and Romo were not top 12). I'll even give you Urlacher. Even if you can come up with 2 more good ones in the top 12, that's still a 40% failure / bust rate. And again, I said I like Mack, he just worries me a bit. I clearly said that I think Barr is the bust of the draft.

Dude, what are you talking about? Mike Williams was drafted #4 overall in the 2002 draft. Look it up homey, you are utterly and unquestionably wrong. And your list of a few good small school players? I can guarantee you that I can come up with a list of small school guys that put up huge numbers that didn't do anything in the NFL or even make the NFL at all. Hell, the best QB in the MAC last year got signed as a RB, a RB!!!

We drafted Williams at number 4. How is that almost falling out of the top 10? You can also add Robert Gallery and Jason Smith as safe OTs drafted top 5 that busted. I like Mack, don't get me wrong, I just really value the level of competition in determining how well they will adjust to the NFL and UB plays garbage teams all season long. Like I said, he was invisible versus the best offense they saw last year, Baylor, and that worries me a bit. Also Keith Rivers and Ernie Sims were seen as pretty safe as well, they'd both have to be seen as busts as of now (hopefully not for long for Rivers), so I don't think Curry is as rare of an exception as you believe.